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What is productivity? Some think that the concept of productivity relates to the ability of getting more things done within the same period of time; I will slightly disagree and offer another way of thinking about it – Productivity is the reduction and streamlining of input to generate the highest output possible. Let’s think of an example that a Real Estate Agent can use to reduce input and increase output – take your Smartphone and make sure that your calendar on both your computer and in your phone are syncing; this is simply done by using a Gmail Account. When you sync the proper information on all your devices you are reducing input and therefore your responses are optimizing your output. Let’s look at another example: ‘Deletion’ – if you are saving every email you receive you are increasing your input of data; and no NOT all of your email are worth saving – the fear of loss is crippling your movement; some emails are worth saving, but if you are not deleting processed emails on a regular basis you will end up drowning under a mountain of input, and it is of your doing!